Title :
Efficient switching activity computation during high-level synthesis of control-dominated designs
Author :
Bogliolo, A. ; Benini, L. ; Riccó, B. ; De Micheli, G.
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Elettronica Inf. e Sistemistica, Bologna Univ., Italy
Abstract :
In this work we propose an exact technique for efficient computation of signal statistics during high-level synthesis for low-power of general control-dominated designs. Our approach does not require iterative simulation: simulation is performed once for all to collect boundary information that will be repeatedly exploited for computing signal statistics for alternative implementations.
Keywords :
circuit optimisation; high level synthesis; logic simulation; low-power electronics; switching theory; CDFG simulation; RTL power estimation; boundary information; control-dominated designs; high-level synthesis; input-output statistics; low-power design; signal statistics; simulation; switching activity computation; Circuits; Computational modeling; Data structures; Flow graphs; High level synthesis; Performance evaluation; Power generation; Processor scheduling; Signal design; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Low Power Electronics and Design, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-58113-133-X
